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It's Ruby in RPython, the implementation language of the PyPy VM toolchain. It has nothing to do with integrating with Python. It's an alternative Ruby VM using a proven JIT genera…

Hey, at least he thinks it's glitzy. That's a plus.

Uhm... utter tripe. How bizarre.

In the process of moving 24 domains.

I don't really know what you mean by supporting numpy on pypy "excludes" scipy (other than in the short term). If you mean you assumed that the pypy team would port all of scipy as…

I missed the specific suggestions on how the pypy guys could improve things - other than "do a lot of work on numpy itself as well so that it better supports multiple implementatio…

Shuttleworth is trying... :-)

It doesn't make it more of an issue. Installing any Python package already requires "arbitrary code execution" -- which is the big problem with Python packaging. (And hopefully wil…

This Trojan requires the ability to execute arbitrary code and write to files - so it's not in itself any kind of exploit. It's just malicious Python code.

And whilst we're at it can people stop using "water" as a synonym for "pure water". Mud is water too, it's just not as pure!

Well, you just change to the Python 2 super call form and it works fine. The substitution hardly requires a master programmer...

Because there is no need for locking in the fundamental data-types like hashes.

pypy has quicker start up than CPython and also has a JIT. They're working on interesting memory optimisations too.

IronPython is another GIL free Python implementation.

"Python is hurting from a bad design decision that doesn't let multiple interpreter implementations share components that they could have." As many others have said, changing synta…

Bug report triaging is very good now - most reports get responded to within a day.

Nope - not arbitrary, it is because of the indentation scoping rules. Try coming up with a syntax for statement based lambdas that isn't ugly as heck.

Well, normally I would agree - but if its entirely abstracted away in a library (and the library is well written) then it might sort-of-kind-of-maybe be ok. Python itself does vary…

You could almost certainly achieve that with the implementation of blocks provided by this package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/withhacks/

And not being Lisp is one of the big reasons for the success of both Python and Ruby. :-) FLAMEBAIT -> FLAMEBAIT

As a Pythonista I have no idea what the Ruby snippet is doing. Readability depends entirely on context. The Python 3 version is using a function annotation. In Python 2 or 3 you co…

Bullsh*t.

And in terms of scaling Ruby is likely to be the cause of your problems rather than the solution...

"method_missing" - do you know about '__getattr__' for Python? (can be a one liner if you want...) "oh-so-thread-safe-code for an interpreter that serializes around a global interp…

"The browser is a fantastic platform. You never have to install web apps. You never have to patch web apps." Fantastic for the developer maybe - not so for the user. "Remember, dum…